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Rooster326@programming.dev 1 week agoA real sense of community
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Comment on Single player games
Rooster326@programming.dev 1 week agoA real sense of community
The community
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FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yes, that exactly!
Back in the days of COD on 360, voice chat was a relatively new thing. And everyone wanted to have a go. Since it was novel to talk to people far outside your own country, they did what humans do: teach each other naughty words and slurs. And whether you were from the Netherlands, Greece, the US or wherever, that was fun!
Now, obviously there was verbal abuse. But the thing people don’t really grasp unless they were there is: everyone gave as good as they got. Someone calls you X, Y or Z, well you insult their mom in three different languages back. Especially European lobbies were great fun since you’d get teams of all different nationalities.
And since voice chat was pretty much uncensored, nobody thought anything of it. Like I said, we all gave as good as we got.
With modern games, there’s so much censorship that people take voice chat off game. Barely anyone talks anymore, and certainly not outside their own group. Because one slightly offensive word can get your account banned.
So yeah, I’ll take an uncensored, chatty community over a completely silent one.